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Title: The English governess at the Siamese court : being recollections of six years in the royal palace at Bangkok
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Leonowens, Anna Harriette, 1834-1914
Subjects: Thailand -- Social life and customs
Publisher: Boston : J.R. Osgood
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ark complexion.He was, moreover, modest and affectionate, eager to learn,and easy to influence. His mother dying when he was about nine years old,he, with his younger brothers, the Princes Chowfa Cha-turont Easmi and Chowfa Bhanurangsi Swang Wongse,and their lovely young sister, the Princess SomdetchCliowfa Chandrmondol ( Fa-ying ), were left to the careof a grand-aunt, Somdetch Ying Noie, a princess by thefathers side. This was a tranquil, cheerful old soul, at-tracted toAvard everything that was bright and pretty, andever busy among flowers, poetry, and those darlings ofher loving life, her nieces children. Of these the littleFa-ying (whose sudden death by cholera I have described)was her favorite ; and after her death the faithful creatureturned her dimmed eyes and chastened pride to theyoung prince Chulalonkorn. Many an earnest talk hadthe venerable duchess and I, in which she did not hesi-tate to implore me to instil into the minds of her youth- • The present Supreme King. .7 ^
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The Heir-Apparf.nt. THE HEIR-APPARENT. — ROYAL HAIR-CUTTING. 155 ful wards — and especially this king that was to be —the purest principles of Christian faith and precept. Yetwith all the freshness of the religious habit of her child-hood she was most scrupulous in her attendance and de-votions at the temple. Her grief for the death of herdarling was deep and lasting, and by the simple force ofher love she exerted a potent influence over tlie mind ofthe royal lad. A very stern thing is life to the children of royalty inSiam. To watch and be silent, when it has most needof confidence and freedom,—a horrible necessity for achild ! The very babe in the cradle is taught mysteriousand terrible things by the motlier that bore it, — in-fantile experiences of distrust and terror, out of which afew come up noble, the many infamous. Here are babyheroes and heroines who do great deeds before our hap-pier Western children have begun to think. There wereactual, though unnoticed and uncon

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